Holland & Knight's Diversity Council and Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Affinity Group are proud to celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and pay tribute to the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and continue to play a role in its future success. This year, we took time to reflect on how we could better support our API colleagues, sitting down with attorneys and staff to have important conversations about racial justice and allyship. Throughout the coming weeks, we will be See more +
Holland & Knight's Diversity Council and Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Affinity Group are proud to celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and pay tribute to the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and continue to play a role in its future success. This year, we took time to reflect on how we could better support our API colleagues, sitting down with attorneys and staff to have important conversations about racial justice and allyship. Throughout the coming weeks, we will be presenting a video series showcasing some of these conversations. We hope that the stories conveyed in these videos help advance dialogue around API Heritage Month as well as lead to further discussions of how we can be better allies to our API friends, family and colleagues.
In the eighth episode of this series, Partner Anna Sankaran talks about the important role mentors play in an attorney's growth and success. Anna has been involved in several bar associations throughout her career, from founding the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston in the aftermath of 9/11 to becoming the first South Asian member of the State Bar of Texas board of directors. She shares how a memorable encounter with another South Asian woman attorney at a bankruptcy conference led to a mentor relationship that continues to this day, and she emphasizes the significance of having mentors who recognize the roles and stereotypes assigned to different groups while actively working to combat those perceptions and find opportunities for visibility for their mentees. Anna concludes with a few pieces of advice for young lawyers. See less -
